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Blair Didn't Lie His Way Into Iraq. Neither Did Bush. - Bloomberg Wed, 06 Jul 2016 20:30:32 GMT

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Blair Didn't Lie His Way Into Iraq. Neither Did Bush.
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The former prime minister didn't lie the U.K. into the Iraq war. This is the clear conclusion of a sweeping inquiry into the war released earlier today by Chilcot's committee, a report that took longer to produce than the British military involvement ...
Scathing report on Blair's Iraq War role prompts contrition, defiance and a reckoningWashington Post
Chilcot report delivers damning verdict on British role in Iraq WarCNN
Tony Blair unrepentant as Chilcot gives crushing Iraq war verdictThe Guardian
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Why Is Iraq Still Using Fake Bomb Detectors? - The Atlantic Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:31:00 GMT

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Why Is Iraq Still Using Fake Bomb Detectors?
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Following Sunday's bombing in Baghdad—which the Iraqi government now says killed 250 people, making it ISIS's deadliest-ever bombing against civilians—The Washington Post reported that the website of Iraq's Ministry of Interior had been hacked.
The Iraq Invasion's Legacy Is Still Bloodily ApparentTIME
Iraq's interior minister resigns in wake of devastating Baghdad truck bombingCNN
Iraq bombing: Baghdad death toll rises to 250Aljazeera.com
BBC News -The Guardian -Newsweek
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UK Inquiry Releases Scathing Report On Iraq War - Huffington Post Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:23:50 GMT

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UK Inquiry Releases Scathing Report On Iraq War
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair told U.S. President George W. Bush eight months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq “I will be with you, whatever”, and relied on flawed intelligence and legal advice to go to war, a seven-year inquiry ...

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First take: White House wants to avoid another Iraq in Afghanistan - USA TODAY Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:12:16 GMT

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First take: White House wants to avoid another Iraq in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON — Left unsaid in President Obama's announcement Wednesday that he will keep more troops in Afghanistan: fear of repeating the cycle of violence that continues to grip Iraq five years after U.S. forces withdrew. In 2011, the last American ...

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Congressman and Iraq War Vet Blasts Trump's Praise of Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein - ABC News Wed, 06 Jul 2016 20:35:00 GMT

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Congressman and Iraq War Vet Blasts Trump's Praise of Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein
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Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass. — an Iraq War vet — blasted Donald Trump's praise of Saddam Hussein at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, Tuesday. "Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? ... But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists.
I'd still vote to go to war in IraqThe Guardian
Trump praises Saddam Hussein's efficient killing of 'terrorists,' calls today's Iraq 'Harvard for terrorism'CNN

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Intelligence files support claims Iraq invasion helped spawn Isis - The Guardian Wed, 06 Jul 2016 20:41:25 GMT

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Intelligence files support claims Iraq invasion helped spawn Isis
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Allegations that the invasion of Iraq increased the terrorist threat to the UK and helped spawn the terror group Islamic State are supported by intelligence documents released as part of the Chilcot report. Top-secret reports from the joint ...

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A UK intelligence source reportedly based information about Iraq chemical weapons on a Nicolas Cage movie - Business Insider Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:55:31 GMT

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A UK intelligence source reportedly based information about Iraq chemical weapons on a Nicolas Cage movie
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A UK intelligence agency might have based part of a report on Iraq's alleged chemical weapons on a movie starring Nicolas Cage, according to a government inquiry released Wednesday. The inquiry contends that Britain's involvement in the Iraq war was ...

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MI6 stood by bogus intelligence until after Iraq invasion - The Guardian Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:34:25 GMT

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MI6 stood by bogus intelligence until after Iraq invasion
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The incident is just one of a series of blunders described by the Chilcot report committed by Britain's overseas spy agency, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Chilcot describes the ...
MI6 Iraq nerve gas report 'stolen from action film The Rock'Telegraph.co.uk

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At last, Jack Straw's role in making the case for the Iraq War is exposed - The Independent Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:12:03 GMT

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At last, Jack Straw's role in making the case for the Iraq War is exposed
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In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, the then Foreign Secretary was facing a “moral as well as political dilemma”. The support he gave to military action was “the most difficult decision” he had ever taken. It was an “error”, he realised, not to be more ...
Jack Straw's role in preparing for post-crisis Iraq criticised by ChilcotThe Guardian

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UN urges Iraq to prevent 'full-throttle sectarian' war - Aljazeera.com Tue, 05 Jul 2016 21:50:16 GMT

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UN urges Iraq to prevent 'full-throttle sectarian' war
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The United Nations has called on Iraq to prevent militias fighting alongside government forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) from taking revenge on civilians and to clarify the fate of hundreds now missing. A Shia ...

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